Antarctica is 98% ice, 2% barren rock. The average thickness of the ice sheet is 7,200 feet; this amounts to 90% of all the ice and 70% of all the fresh water in the world. If the ice cap were to melt, the sea level would rise by an average of 230 feet.
If you are afraid that you might die laughing — you are suffering from
cherophobia.
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses is the longest word in Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary. It is a pneumoconiosis disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silicate or quartz dust.
Table tennis was originally played with balls made from champagne corks and paddles made from cigar-box lids. It was created in the 1880s by James Gibb, a British engineer who wanted an invigorating game he could play indoors when it was raining. Named "Gossima," the game was first marketed with celluloid balls, which replaced Gibb's corks. After the equipment manufacturer renamed the game "Ping-Pong" in 1901, it became a hot seller.
A human can detect one drop of perfume diffused throughout a three-room apartment
Mel Blanc — the voice of Bugs Bunny — was allergic to carrots. After a near-fatal auto accident in 1961, Blanc did his cartoon voices, including the first 65 episodes of "The Flintstones," flat on his back, with the microphone hanging over his bed.
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